Another Jeopardy! home game question

[clemon79]

Here's a big question to the membership at large: Exactly what are you wanting in a Yahtzee

The ability to earn cards that allow you to manipulate and add dice.

or Monopoly expansion?

The ability to not have to play Monopoly.

[Adam Nedeff]

It seems to me I sent away for an extra set of puzzles for my Pressman WoF game back in the '80s, but I could be wrong about that. Does anyone else remember if this was possible?

Yes. 1st Pressman edition had an order form printed on the back cover of the puzzle booklet. You could mail it in with a check or money order to get 96 more puzzles.

[PYLdude]

Speaking of Monopoly (is it a bad sign that I'm hijacking my own thread here?)...

I was playing the Here and Now edition last night (first time I played it, got it for Christmas...two years ago? Don't remember)...is it bad that I was actually rooting to hit the "Go To Jail" space to avoid paying my brother rent on the yellow properties, which he had buildings on? (And how lucky was I to avoid paying him rent on those properties for like fifteen turns in a row?)

[TLEberle]

is it bad that I was actually rooting to hit the "Go To Jail" space to avoid paying my brother rent on the yellow properties, which he had buildings on? (And how lucky was I to avoid paying him rent on those properties for like fifteen turns in a row?)

Absolutely not. Getting three hots and a flop (plus conjugals if you're into that sort of thing) for three turns is a damn sight better than $1,150 and turning the corner into Fourth Street.

[Jeremy Nelson]

Speaking of Monopoly (is it a bad sign that I'm hijacking my own thread here?)...

I was playing the Here and Now edition last night (first time I played it, got it for Christmas...two years ago? Don't remember)...is it bad that I was actually rooting to hit the "Go To Jail" space to avoid paying my brother rent on the yellow properties, which he had buildings on? (And how lucky was I to avoid paying him rent on those properties for like fifteen turns in a row?)

You want to avoid Jail like the plague during the first portion of the game when everybody is jockeying to gain property- but when property starts trading hands and you're on the wrong end of the trading, jail becomes a sanctuary. Then you pray for lots of low rolls leading up to a hotel trap, and big rolls to completely jump it.

[parliboy]

Here's a big question to the membership at large: Exactly what are you wanting in a Yahtzee

The ability to earn cards that allow you to manipulate and add dice.

In other words, this.

obGameShow:  I wrote a prototype (with another person) that used contracts of  various difficulty with Yahtzee-style rolling, where you used the "Three  on a Match" cancellation auction to determine who won the bid to do it  in the fewest rolls.  When you failed, you paid a penalty, but you also  got things that made it easier to complete future contracts.  At one  point, we tried to use the blocking rules from The Big Showdown to keep  people from bidding on certain things, but it wasn't fun in context.

[quote name='clemon79'][quote name='TLEberle'] or Monopoly expansion?[/quote]
The ability to not have to play Monopoly.
[/quote]

Or preferably, this.

[clemon79]

In other words, this.